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Bring back Liam’s authoritative beard (Emmerdale 3-14th November 2025)
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After quickly debriefing the highlights of Simon’s 40th birthday party, we talk about the 3 recent special episodes of Emmerdale as well as expressing our frustrations at everyone gaslighting Eve, discussing why Ray and Celia’s horrible barn accommodation has better interior design choices than most other Emmerdale properties, and wondering which new young male character is secretly Kev’s son.
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Podcast Introduction and Personal Stories
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of Dingle All The Way. I'm Lizzie. I'm Simon. And we're going to talk about all things Emmerdale. um And I think I'm right in thinking this, that this is the first podcast episode we've ever recorded where, since the last one, we've seen each other in person. That's, well maybe that's true, how fun, because...
00:00:24
Speaker
you came to my birthday party. Simon had a lovely 40th birthday party and I drove down and joined them there and honestly pretty much everybody I met was like, are you the Emmerdale one?
00:00:38
Speaker
I do talk about my podcast a lot. I mean, I can't imagine many of them followed up with I listened to that podcast. Well, of course, I finally met Marley, i doesn't listen, doesn't watch Emmerdale, but listens to our podcast religiously and that loves it. So thank you, Marley. love you. It was really nice to meet her. She's the best.
00:00:59
Speaker
I did bring you over like a celebrity being like, Maddie, here she is. I know. It was great. And I also got to meet um Simon's twin brother, Colin, who showed little to no interest in the podcast, or particularly in me, actually. But that added to the charm.
00:01:14
Speaker
That's what you want. That's what we want from Colin. Yeah, for sure. was really nice. um Yeah, and I met your... I met parents, obviously, and your dad, I forgot to tell you this, your dad said to me, ah yeah, i'm he did start watching Emmerdale a while ago.
00:01:28
Speaker
It was in his post-Friends era. And it took me a while to realise he was talking about, like, the TV show Friends and not just that, like, all of your friends deserted you. I actually don't know what he means. i think he probably means neighbours because he often says want friends when he means neighbours or vice versa.
00:01:46
Speaker
but So he's probably referring to me starting watching when neighbours was briefly cancelled and then came back. Yeah. he i mean, he seemed confused ah many things that were going on around him. Vester Sweetheart, he's a good go man. But he does, yeah certainly, this is not a sign of age. He's always been like this. Like, he will use words at random to mean do whatever he fancies. And you just have to sort of, and well, it's not even at random. Often it's like he'll use windows and curtains interchangeably, wheelie bin wheelbarrow interchangeably. There's certain ones you have to, like, know. That's so nice. That's like, um my dad...
00:02:20
Speaker
can't get his head around whenever he meets anybody either called John or Dave okay he can't remember which one is and like we'll just use like always the wrong one and i remember saying to him once like dad we don't really know many people called Dave why don't you just whenever you're in doubt go for John and he was like I can't believe you would say that we know so many Daves what about the Dave who does like the microphones at church i was like yeah his name is John you can see where this is going like what about the dave who rides the motorbike like his name is also john and was honestly like four or five people over and over again i was like they're all called john you do you see what the issue is sir it's so good and like obviously he's like 70 now but this was about like 20 years ago it's not an age thing it's just a about personality thing i often say to my dad it's like the i don't know how he'd ever know if you did decline into senility because ah all the traits are there
00:03:15
Speaker
yeah I've genuinely had this conversation with my mum, at which point like I think she strongly encouraged me to go you to the doctor and have like a memory test and they were like, no, you're kind of fine. He's just a middle class man in England. That's what they like.
00:03:28
Speaker
He's just long term confused. That's what they do. I did have a few Emmerdale little prezzies I should mention. um I've just been showing Lizzie on and we'll put this on on the socials at some point. My brother, well in fact my brother got me 40 presents for 40. Very impressive. So good.
00:03:45
Speaker
um one of which was Woolpack tea part, which is very impressive. i i I think it's based on the new Woolpack. It's a bit hard to tell. It does have disturbingly large pigeons on the roof, but aside from that, it's amazing. I've not made tea in it yet, but um that day I'm sure will come.
00:04:02
Speaker
And I also, I laughed so much at this. i got... I've got a few Amadell goodies from Lizzie. Thank you, Lizzie. Yes, they are. But the one that really made me laugh was a mug that um i I'd already at this point opened, I think, the beautiful homemade mug by Lizzie, who is, sure we've mentioned, a ceramicist. You know, very beautifully made.
00:04:25
Speaker
artisanal, et cetera, cetera. And then let's say the the opposite of that was a mug that had
Emmerdale Merchandise and Podcast Surprises
00:04:31
Speaker
Rodney Black stuck on it. And it's like, who wants this? i mean, apart from me, obviously, but like, who's like, you know who my favorite character is?
00:04:39
Speaker
Rodney. I went to Eshel, as I believe I told you on the podcast, And they've converted the post. at Well, I think the post office is still a post office, but it also sells a lot of merchandise, almost all of which is like not official merch. Like someone has just sent off for a job lot of things with like slightly pixelated photos printed on them. And I loved it so much.
00:05:05
Speaker
So I got Simon like, a coaster a fridge magnet I got myself a lighter that's like a gift from Emmerdale which I'm finding it really funny to like light my candles and um yeah there was just these mugs on the top shelf all of them just like molded white like china with like quite like strangely printed um pictures of characters who largely left the show like 15 years ago like Bernice was on there, Diane was on there and I saw Rodney and I was like that's gonna have to be the one. The great thing was when I was wrapping it up I realized it wasn't super clean and I was like oh well it's been on the top shelf of this like quite like barely populated post office for a while it's obviously got some dust on it and then when I went to actually wash it up I was like oh and it's also got like dribbles of tea down the side of it from
00:05:57
Speaker
like lord only knows how many years ago so like somebody used that and then didn't really wash it and then put it back on the shelf and then it gained a lot of dust you can see their thought process so like i really need a mug which of these is certainly never going to be award so good but yeah honestly would highly recommend a visit at eschalt because not only can you sit in the wall pack but you can buy some unlicensed, very cheap merchandise. I got a t-shirt with Kane Ningal's face on it.
00:06:28
Speaker
and Which you walked my party ahead of at noon. i think it was only like six pounds or something. So everyone needs to get that. Amazing. Yeah, I mean, if we ever go back, we'll get some we'll get some for a giveaway or something. Yes!
00:06:41
Speaker
yeah At the moment, everything we've got, we urgently need need to keep, so I'm afraid. It is urgent, yeah. I would not be parted from that lighter in particular. A couple of other things I was going to mention before we get into the actual past couple weeks' episodes.
00:06:57
Speaker
One is, in fact, on my birthday, the my and I did another guest episode for Pop Goes the Tam Tam podcast. I can't remember if i told you about this, Lizzie. You did? Well, yeah actually, I think you vaguely mentioned it, but then I had totally forgotten and I saw it like posted on Instagram. was like, oh, cool.
00:07:12
Speaker
So, yes, the reason it was just me is because it was Neighbours, I'm Adele. So it was Livvy and Drew's wedding, which I must have watched in 1990. I've already forgotten. Nine, maybe. um But I...
00:07:25
Speaker
had no recollection of and it was really fun to talk with Tamsin about that so go and check that out podcast of Tam Tam and the other thing I wanted to mention is that we're now on IMDB I know how mental is that and like can i please ask why i will say this is not something that either of us did um proactively I can only assume it was the handiwork of our of our friend and guest, Waseem, who was on a couple of episodes ago because he has attributed episode to himself. So thank you, Waseem.
00:07:57
Speaker
You can now find me, the 51st Simon Thomas on IMDb and Lizzie, the first and only. um And ah yeah, he obviously got bored after doing five episodes and his episode. He thought, I shan't bother with the
Emmerdale Storyline Discussions
00:08:13
Speaker
rest.
00:08:13
Speaker
Yeah, i don't I really don't know if anybody will ever want to lit me up. I mean, presumably when I become full-time member of the Emmerdale cast, they'll do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But until then, why am I on there? More to the point, I can understand why we're, I guess, technically directors and producers, but we're also attributed actors in this podcast.
00:08:33
Speaker
Am I a cast member playing myself? Is that how this works? Who is my podcast persona? it's like Lorraine Kelly was playing Lorraine Kelly. that century Yeah, I guess one day we might find out who the real you is and who the Simon Thomas on Dingle of the Way is. But until then, are you actually Colin?
00:08:54
Speaker
Oh my gosh, twist. Twist, twist, twist. No, he's never seen it madow in his life as far as worse. I'm all power to him for that decision. So I guess since we last spoke, we've had the three, think all three, standalone special episodes. Oh my word. Yeah. So there was the the one with April and Marlon.
00:09:14
Speaker
There was the one with Bear and a bit of Anya. And there was ah Robert's prison experience. Yeah. So I guess we just take them in turn.
00:09:25
Speaker
Yeah, let's do that. why know I know. I'm pretty sure they were all like, we did yeah, I'm trying to remember when the April one actually was, but let's say it was. I don't think we've talked about it. I don't think we talked about it. I will say I totally forgot to write any notes about this, it would seem.
00:09:37
Speaker
Yeah, me too, actually. But I do have thoughts. um Yeah, i I found it really both moving and frustrating. And I was very, very glad that I accidentally saw a spoiler, i think,
00:09:52
Speaker
maybe on Facebook or Reddit that said, oh, so Marlon isn't really dead and it was all a dream. um And I think if I hadn't known that going in, I would have found it really, really tough to watch. um And I think I probably would have realized when Marlon died, like this doesn't seem very realistic and why is rage just bursting in.
00:10:12
Speaker
But I was very glad because I think the way that they did the beginning bit, which turned out to be real, where... um yeah April was just getting on really well with Marlon again was so nice and then yeah when she then told him about everything that been going on it was like it would have been such a relief if I believed it was real that I'm really glad that my heart never thought that that was actually happening because then having that taken away from me again it just would have been too much my cat is being very noisy in the background I did wonder I was like I think that's Hargraves but I'm not sure hey Huggs
00:10:50
Speaker
yeah, I was grateful you sent me that particular spoiler. Well, you asked me if I wanted to see it. And I was like, yes, because I think I'd have been so annoyed if I got to the end of that episode, not knowing that a large chunk of it was, well, not, they said a dream and read it, but I guess it's like imaginary, like imagination. Like a daydream.
00:11:10
Speaker
ah Yeah. thing yeah And I was like, myself so what was the point of this episode? Like we had some nice bits and that, you know, they're both great actors. We love seeing the little, um, father-daughter stuff.
00:11:21
Speaker
Although I think it's always slightly awkward when they come up with happy memories that presumably didn't happen in the show when they were both there at the time referred to. I basically always assume that it's just something I wasn't watching for. trying to remember what they did it'll talk about. It was about having in a costume for something, wasn't it?
00:11:37
Speaker
Maybe it did. I don't know. I got to the end, it's like, yeah, okay, let's just not move the story on at all. And I feel like we've already had so much of this story. We said last time, we're just like, it's all all April story all the time.
00:11:49
Speaker
I'm sick of it, frankly. That's what I say, did very little for me. I did really hope that whatever April's episode episode was, it would involve things moving forward or some sort of like person finding out about what's going on, which is why I think I would have felt so hard done by if I didn't know from the beginning. And that's not what was happening.
00:12:07
Speaker
um But I do feel like it served a bit of plot purpose in terms of like, i think what happened in that episode ah helped April to feel like I really want to tell like my dad in terms of like they had that really special time at the beginning.
00:12:22
Speaker
And like at the end, I found it really moving at the end, like the bit that was actually real of her being like, oh, I can't remember what she said. Something nice. The only thing I know for certain is that you love me. Yeah, yeah. So one thing I know for sure. Yeah, that was very sweet. I think it also will have strengthened her resolve not to tell him because it's like you realize like what she's most scared of.
00:12:42
Speaker
Yeah. It'll end up bringing harm to Marlon and the family if she does. So i don't know. I feel like it helped us to get an insight into her mind, but it didn't really do much, did it? No, but our wondering about like how Ray and Celia are sustaining an entire criminal network based on two useless teenagers was expanded ah during during an equally miserable episode. Oh, I thought that was, that this is the one I found it hardest to watch in the whole time watching Emmerdale. I actually had to like half have it on and like half be looking at my phone and at other things because it was so grim.
00:13:16
Speaker
So yeah, we had 100 days of modern slavery story from Bear. It felt like 100 days. I lived through a hundred days although curiously it does start i still don't really know what happened between him leaving and him ending up there like he was like obviously living in his car at some point think the implication is that like he got either like quite confused or just like too depressed to deliver on like what he'd planned to do of going over to Ireland and he just like ended up living in his car
00:13:47
Speaker
Yeah, maybe. Yeah, I guess so. yeah We haven't seen a lot of Bear in the time that we've been watching. so But I did see a few clips when he first joined and he was like this boisterous, exuberant. don't know, it's interesting that I'm not sure how much this storyline fits what we know Bear. But I guess i guess it could happen to anyone.
00:14:05
Speaker
and Although seldom... a stone's throw from your child who is desperately looking for you i guess yeah that i think it is quite strange i can understand why they're doing the whole like he's just under their noses and they don't even know it like when people turn up to the farm to look at turkeys whatever and he's right there but i do just kind of feel like would he he's lived in that village a lot of his life would he not just look out the window no and be like oh yeah i live down there that's true Yeah, I mean, I guess we've never set eyes on this film before, so maybe no one no no one there ever goes to it.
00:14:39
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah, and I suppose maybe if he did know where he was, is there anything he could do about it anyway? I'm not sure. But um yeah, it was a very it was a very tough watch, wasn't it?
00:14:50
Speaker
It was. It was also very heavy strings throughout. She was really telling us how to feel. But um yeah, and I'm sure this sort of thing does happen. Well, obviously it does.
00:15:00
Speaker
um I did wonder how Ray was managing to run the operation when he is twenty four seven like observing teens and playing pool. How's he fitting any of this in? I wrote that down. i was like, Ray and Celia are like full-time drug dealers. They appear to also...
00:15:15
Speaker
be involved in quite a lot of human trafficking and now they're running a farm and also running modern day slavery ring. like It's an impressive CV and how do they have time for it all?
00:15:27
Speaker
They certainly fill 24 hours with content. They are productive if nothing else. yeah i I do wonder what would draw them to bear because obviously I can see why he's vulnerable but is he useful?
00:15:43
Speaker
like he seemed he didn't seem to ever do any work on this farm he and apart from you know the last scene we saw him sort of as we know is the only thing that anyone does on a farm moving things so slightly further away that's the only thing yeah yeah I guess they do always like they've pitched it as like oh they always prey on the vulnerable but you think they would probably not prey on like the vulnerable who aged like the octogenarian vulnerable are a different breed on a farm yeah and suddenly when he's would mangled his arm whatever he did that's he's no use to twenty anyone bless his sweetheart no but yeah i know was horrible and i found it strange because we've had a few like ray redemptive moments where he's like he seems to generally like laurel had little dinner party with marlon and
00:16:32
Speaker
and Rona and Laurel. And he occasionally looks a bit sad that he's doing terrible things, but this episode episode sort of undid all that because he was so horrible. And you can see he's like scared of Celia and and very much obeying her, but they didn't see too much reluctance in in this episode.
00:16:49
Speaker
Yeah, he's definitely a victim himself, but I i really hope Emmerdale isn't going to try and make us like him at the end of this. Because can't you just imagine that of like him being like, oh, I'm really sorry. And then everyone's expected to just be like, you know what? It's actually fine that you tried to force a teenager into prostitution.
00:17:08
Speaker
And like, I don't know. I'm bit worried that that's how this Laurel thing is going to play out. They show him, show us more and more of his sensitive side and we're meant to become endeared to him.
00:17:19
Speaker
Yeah, and we already said with the whole Joe Tate storyline, it's like, how and evil can someone be and get redeemed? And he seems to have broadly been redeemed, but surely this is too far.
00:17:30
Speaker
Surely, you would really hope so. um so Something I have been wondering is, Bear, I don't think, was on the scene when Ray and Celia arrived in the village. So now that everyone's being like, um we're looking for Paddy's dad, we're looking for Bear, and he's only ever told them that his name is Ted, do they know that he's Paddy's dad? That's a good point. Or are they going to end up on some sort of search party for him and then be like, oh wait, actually, we've got him. Oh, he's literally in
Character Relationships and Speculations
00:17:56
Speaker
this shack. Yeah.
00:17:58
Speaker
Such a good point. Because I wondered why they were doing the fake name, but I guess... That must be why. um Although, have they put up posters? Have they put something on Facebook with this picture? I don't know.
00:18:09
Speaker
i don't know if it's got to that stage, I think, because they went to the police and and the police were a bit like, We'll let you know. simply i don't yeah I don't think they're getting to like search party and poster stage, but maybe it'll come. It's true. they do They do leap to poster stage quite quickly. I love the poster stage. So true. Someone should set up as poster printing business in the village. They would coin it. Yeah, for sure.
00:18:32
Speaker
Something that did amuse me is the reason Paddy was worried is like Bear would never miss Eve's birthday. It's like be Bear wouldn't dream of attending Eve's birthday under any circumstances. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the only interaction we ever saw Bear and Eve in the same room was when he was essentially feeding her drugs.
00:18:51
Speaker
Yeah, and Paddy and... I can't even remember who Eve's mum is. Oh, Chaz. ah don't set eyes on her for weeks at a time. So, you know, she's no one's priority. Yeah, she's always an unaccompanied minor, apart from apparently when she is with Mattie.
00:19:07
Speaker
Doing a bare hand. I did like that everyone assumed she was an it an idiot. Like, no one didn't cross their mind that she could be telling the truth. I know. And I did think, like, you are literally asking everyone to look out for him.
00:19:19
Speaker
And she's saying that. Would you not at least, like, ask her to show you where it was and, like, describe in a bit more detail rather than just, like, immediately gaslighting her? And she's not, like, two. She is, like, an age where she would recognise her grandad. Yeah.
00:19:34
Speaker
So that was unusual and quite annoying. Something I've been a bit worried about is um Ray is giving Bear all these pills, which I'm sure he's saying it like for the pain. But do you think he's like giving him an opiate addiction or something?
00:19:48
Speaker
gosh. I just have it in me, Lizzie. I just can't through more of this. It's so gruelling. But the one upside is I feel similar to the sort of, um you know, when Mac was being held in the bunker and I was like,
00:20:02
Speaker
obviously terrible situation but the decor down there is quite nice I feel similarly about where they sleep in that loft because enjoying the chevy chic I love old enamel wear I love like wooden step bladders with paint splashed on them I love a stoneware drinking jug like it's things to hold on to whereas I look at the home farm decor and I'm like I know that I'm meant to think that looks high-end but that looks tacky and sad to me Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure I'd leap towards like having a tarpaulin instead of a wall. Less fun.
00:20:33
Speaker
I'm saying there are redeeming decor aspects amongst a horrible tumble-down barn. Yeah, fair enough. Okay, yeah, it's definitely more appealing than the overcrowded finery of Obama. could be Exactly. saying Whose house... Well, maybe it is this, you know, horrible shack. Whose house is your favourite decor?
00:20:56
Speaker
I'd say the exposed beams in the shack give for the most potential. um I guess like where Rona and Marlon live, I don't love the decor choices, it's very 90s, but it's at least got some character because it's got like, it looks like there's texture under those walls. And I think, does it have exposed beams in a stone floor? I think it might do. I presume so. Whereas all of the rest of them are just like really bland, really boring.
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah, except of course for like, Mandy's but we know no one wants to oh yeah but that's awful um I guess Eric's house is lovely is a newer build but i do I do like yeah we don't get to see the inside of that much I feel like that's also got potential I'd like it's got good bones whereas the rest of them have no bones at all they're just like flab I I do like um Moira's house that's that's nice um the big old big old farm kitchen table vibe fine yeah And I sort of, mean, if I got a tetanus shot, I would like to go for a weekend Sam and Lydia's, but I love that sort of,
00:22:02
Speaker
um overcrowded, cosy sort of vibe. I feel that is my house. Yeah, isn't I mean, it's certainly mine. And that's where we we used to go on holiday. That's sort of like slightly downtrodden, but very lots of crocheted blankets. i but Yeah, and it's um always like absolutely freezing, but it's fine because all you're doing anyway is like...
00:22:22
Speaker
stoking the fire and doing a jigsaw puzzle it's raining outside i realized when i moved into one of the houses i lived in after university that i was like i really love the smell of this it's nice it it just reminds me of going on holiday and i realized that smell was mold but i do love the smell of mold in a house it turns out i mean have i got terminal bronchitis Probably. assume. i mean, it maybe not is that thing? Probably is.
00:22:48
Speaker
I mean, I moved out of there 17 years ago, so I think I'm probably probably fine. That is such a classic UK family holiday thing of like, I don't know if this is the same for you. My parents would always book like a cottage in absolutely the middle of nowhere where like you had to drive at least half an hour to go and do anything. but That was part of the charm. Yeah.
00:23:09
Speaker
And then it would rain the entire time. And you'd just like be reading by the fire and playing ball games. And then sometimes you would drive out somewhere and have to have your picnic in the car. And you'd go around like 500 National Trust properties. But I was always just really excited about the gift shop.
00:23:27
Speaker
And you know, that kind of thing. I loved it. And all I want to do on holiday then and now is read a book somewhere. And in fact, I did have this compromise with my parents, mostly my dad, it's like, whenever we go away on holiday, can we have one day where we just stay in the house and just read and drink tea and stuff? And that was like, because dad likes to cram things with activity.
00:23:45
Speaker
The activities would be like, as you say, endless national trusts or very sort of military walks. like i just I just want to read my book here. Please can we do that?
00:23:56
Speaker
Yeah, I think we, like our family is usually quite in agreement that we would plan a few days of not doing much. Nice. Which is the always nice. Yeah. ah I love a good, a good holiday with my parents haven't been on a loan my parents in a few years maybe i need to do that this year we should have the codependence with our parents that everyone in emmerdale has if they live in a village otherwise they don't they never cross their minds but you know once they move well except for weirdly rona ramary who never seem to interact yeah they and i was thinking this week about um robert and seb and seb is in no way part of robert's life
00:24:30
Speaker
But if he ever does come back, it's all he'll think about, didn't he? yeah, obviously. Well, that's it. Robert takes us on to our third special episode. Yeah, lovely little segue. Thank you. Yeah, this was a lot, wasn't it? The Robert and Kev thing.
00:24:42
Speaker
I think my main reflection is that Kev's a lot more fun in prison.
00:24:49
Speaker
Yeah, he was jolly, wasn't he? Yeah, and he has, like... he He's literally let his hair down. He's got... like I feel like Kev, outside of Emmerdale, is kind of funny in a cringey way of like, oh, you're just...
00:25:04
Speaker
o you're saying that, are you? Whereas in prison, like hilarious. I found it really funny when he asked Robert what he was in for and he said murder and he was like, what'd you murder? The dance floor.
00:25:18
Speaker
Yeah, that was, yeah, it was, I could sort of see how the friendship had developed. What I could not see is how they went from that, like, oh, maybe i want to kiss this man to, Let's get married.
00:25:29
Speaker
Yeah. And I think i if I can be so bold, I don't think the writers know that either. and Because it did seem to just very much be like, oh, we're kissing.
00:25:40
Speaker
And then it was suddenly like, I guess we're an item. And then, well, I mean, the proposal was very much like it was complete manipulation. And we've now realized that Kev is like that.
00:25:53
Speaker
And so I suppose the proposal was like that as well. But I don't, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, the actual, because we learned in this episode that he stabbed himself, as you do, rather than being stabbed masked villains.
00:26:06
Speaker
um And I can see like why that, yeah, that was obviously manipulation there, but it must kind of come completely out blue. They must have been sleeping together. They must have been like at least boyfriends or something. I think they probably were. I think there was just a passage of time, which they did not explain to us in any way.
00:26:22
Speaker
Yeah. Because it really seemed like it happened maybe two days later. i was hoping it would elucidate a bit what was going on. Yeah. yeah And it did not. But at least we can see Kev really got Robert out of ah out of a sticky place, Rhi being always killed.
00:26:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It is really nice that he didn't immediately die. Must have been died in a flashback. I was like, this is confusing. I'm confusing. Speaking of flashbacks.
00:26:50
Speaker
Hello. Faith. faith now she was around when i stopped watching i did i was not there for her final storyline of dying of cancer but um she was such a fun character with some real breath of fresh air very like bold and and um a brilliant actor as well i thought so yeah i'd seen someone post on facebook or something like oh gosh i didn't expect to see that character to come back but they hadn't said who it was very kindly and i'd been like well bet it'll be andy but no It was Faith. Yeah, the fan community loves talking about when Andy is going to come back, even though he's quite clearly never going to come back. He's literally running a farm in a way that none of the Emmerdale cast could ever imagine. um But yeah i yeah, I did have to look up who Faith Dingle was, but I thought, I'm sad I missed out on her because she seems like a really fun character and yeah, the actor is fantastic. Like totally, yeah, drawn in by her. yeah.
00:27:47
Speaker
yeah it's interesting to get like a bit of that but behind the scenes stuff and also for the rest of the dingles to have that piece of the jigsaw puzzle I wonder if that will maybe help them to i don't know approve of Robert more if someone who they really respected like Faith went to him in prison and was like we all know that you and Aaron at Endgame like come on don't be silly yeah and it did turn out in one of the conversations that Victoria knew that he'd be moved to Houghton, even though, and i obviously Faith did, but Aaron didn't. So was bit confused about like who who found out and how.
00:28:22
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I guess, was how in touch was he with Victoria when she when he was in hospital? Like, they sort of painted a picture as if he wasn't, but... In hospital? or in Sorry. all the same. It's all the same. I think you're allowed to leave hospital, but... What?
00:28:41
Speaker
We'll make some calls later. up um Yeah, I have no idea, to be honest. I sort of got the impression not at all, just because that was convenient for storyline purposes, but... um maybe not maybe they're gonna read especially yeah um there are a few i didn't think these came from the special episode but there were three different things i noted down from the whole robert storyline just straight things i enjoyed slash hated uh one of which was kev saying i'm all man and you know that sweet cheeks which was tough to to hear yeah that's really tricky yeah that's kind of how i feel about most things that he says
00:29:18
Speaker
sweet cheeks was a lot um but you know it's always nice to get a compliment i suppose i liked that kev remembered that uh when he was in an awkward conversation with nicola that she was robert's first i was gonna say that i was like someone finally mentioned the fact that robert nicola slept together because now that seems even weirder than it probably did at the time yeah so sorry and obviously he was played by a different actor at the time but um mean but yeah i'm glad i'm glad that was something that robert got off his chest in prison yeah yeah so true they really ran out of conversation topics didn't they like right so there's this one called nicola she runs a cafe
00:30:01
Speaker
she's unhinged and then elena really did like I think it was around the time that Robert was basically saying, like, I don't want to break Kev's heart. And Aaron said, you never used to be this nice. And I thought that was actually really sweet. I really enjoyed that. Yeah. Him just being like, when did you become someone who cares? Yeah.
00:30:17
Speaker
But it seemed quite appreciative. Yeah. One of my favorite lines actually came from Ryan, um who we don't really see much of. No. But um just before the ah renewal of the vows, and he just went, why is he remarrying that unhinged weirdo? Yeah.
00:30:34
Speaker
it's a great question right it's such a question and I it was bizarre I laughed out loud when I heard that and my housemate was like oh like what were you laughing at and I told her the line and she was like do you think the writers are listening to your podcast because that is the kind of thing you'd say
00:30:50
Speaker
Yeah, I loved how into it Claudette was. We were so wrong about her. Claudette's obsessed. And I think it's gearing up for like a ah Charles feeling very insecure in the relationship with his mother storyline because she's like going OTT. And I did think like there was one bit where she was like,
00:31:05
Speaker
oh, I'm really proud of you, Kev. And it's like, I don't think you'd be proud. I think you'd be like, I'm really pleased for you or like, I have a warm affection for you. But like, you can't be proud of someone who you met like maybe two weeks ago. I think they're just laying the groundwork for Charles to get really riled. Yeah, was wondering what that storyline could even be because, um yeah, she's just constantly disparaging him. But what's the story? I guess we'll find out. Yeah, I guess we'll find out. Yeah.
00:31:31
Speaker
So yeah, we've got Liam network knows are all about the the um heart disease, I guess. Is that what it is? not being Whatever it is, it's not that serious, apparently. Yeah, you just need to take a couple of pills.
00:31:44
Speaker
and We intimately learned about whether or not he was able to have sex on those pills. Yeah, and actually heard about quite a lot. like I will just assume from now on that that's the case. You don't need to keep on telling me. We don't need the updates. It's like they're really, really obsessed with us like knowing that he and Robert aren't sleeping together.
00:32:02
Speaker
like the people would find it too distressing. We must give constant progress reports. Yeah, that's reassurance. yeah Yeah. I mean, heaven knows we don't want to delve. But... um But I also enjoyed that Kev has clearly got the lay of the land in Emmerdale. He knows that there is little to no chance that Liam is going to keep the Hippocratic Oath. Yeah. He's constantly, it's like, he's not going to do it for medical ethics. We know that. It's going to have to be threats.
00:32:28
Speaker
It's funny because like, he often says things that he shouldn't. In fact, I wrote down, like he he said, I really shouldn't tell you this, but... and i was like, that's surely most ah Liam's most said
Humorous Observations and Character Dynamics
00:32:41
Speaker
line. Then he's also being like, I can't possibly break the Hippocratic Oath, so i like I promise I won't tell Robert that you're not actually dying because I've sworn an oath. It's like, well, you've never kept it before now, so like why why why would you break the habit of a lifetime? I would also like to say on Liam, Liam with no beard is a jump scare.
00:33:03
Speaker
Yeah, because he didn't have a beard when he started. And then, yeah, when he shaved, I was like, well, that was unexpected. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about it. he um He looks less authoritarian somehow. i don't I don't respect him as much with the clean shape. He's just like more anxious. Yeah, he looks like, he like it's like, oh yeah are you ah you sure about anything you're saying? Because I'm not.
00:33:25
Speaker
no Imagine if you're like, could I please change my GP? I do need it to be a man with beard or I guess a woman without a beard, but I certainly don't want to beardless man. Just someone who looks a bit more sure of themselves.
00:33:37
Speaker
Manpreet, come on. know, where's she at? Yeah. And if I went to that so surgery, if you like if I get a choice of my doctor, 100% it's going to be Manpreet. Oh yeah, really absolutely. Yeah.
00:33:50
Speaker
Something I found quite interesting in the whole, leard not Liam, the whole Kev and Robert thing, is everybody is treating this vow renewal like it's an actual legal ceremony. It's true. When people renew their vows, it's usually just like you go to the town hall and you say a few words and then everyone goes home. can it in your living room. You can it anywhere. You don't even need a vicar. It doesn't mean anything. It literally doesn't mean anything.
00:34:16
Speaker
um it's like It's a nice sentiment, but no one... I don't know. No one would take it as seriously as people were taking it there. Everyone was like, wow, this is your wedding. it's like, no, it's not. It's actually not your wedding.
00:34:29
Speaker
um But I suppose we did then get the parallel of like the fact that Robert and Aaron simply love sleeping together on the morning when they're meant to be marrying somebody else. Yeah. Yeah, and um he's so Robert's always making the decision to break up with Kev at the worst possible moment. He's like, I think I should probably do it when he's either incapacitated in hospital or on the morning of our wedding renewal.
00:34:53
Speaker
Yeah, but then he actually finally did it today. Finally. he did it we had a lot of things a lot of secrets on cover today yeah when he said like oh no i am actually just gonna go and break up the curve i literally was like no you're not like we're gonna have to watch you chicken out of it again i was so shocked when he actually did it was amazing i loved it and i actually was quite proud of kev for not hitting him it's like your little elastic band is working so true can get that on the nhs maybe but um The other big twist, which I loved that unusually for Emmerdale slash any soap was not like laboriously spelt out to us, but was sort of just implied, was that Lewis is Kev's son. I know.
00:35:34
Speaker
I love the way they film that I know it was really really fun and I thought that's kind of wild if he's Lewis's dad then Robert is his stepdad in a way is like Lewis's stepdad and it also means that Lewis is currently living with his brother like Ross is his brother well half brother and he has no idea and like Moira is his grandma Cain is his granddad is Vinny his cousin because Cain is Vinny's granddad I don't know but anyway I mean, Lewis knows that Ross is his brother, doesn't he?
00:36:07
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's actually so true. That's their whole relationship. I'd forgotten about that. like Clearly not that. But also, I feel like they're semi-dropping hints that maybe Dylan is the son that was then put up for adoption. Oh, so do you to have a little like we don't know which one it is situation? Yeah, I don't know.
00:36:27
Speaker
I just feel like Dylan's been talking about like his dad a bit and all that kind of thing. That's true. And I don't know whether they're trying to be like could be either of them but then they did say like that the mum's name was emma i did they i missed that for for lewis's mum yeah because kev was like oh some like barmaid called emma like she was mental gave the child away she was mental but um i didn't know why she would have worked as a barmaid she was a nurse but sure i guess maybe you need to then not maybe emma barton maybe they're both it could be when they both say oh our mum's names are emma and they'd like
00:37:03
Speaker
Yeah, very confusing. i think maybe they're trying to make us think it's Lewis and actually it's Dylan. Because actually they both do have similar kind of ears. That's true. That's some good casting. exactly And that did make us think we were messaging about this, that maybe Kev is actually going to be around for more than just this like Robert Obstacle storyline.
00:37:23
Speaker
I think he's going to come to blows with John ah like Christmas. Okay. um Presumably, Waseem will be there She's shepherding them in and out of the border, one hopes.
00:37:35
Speaker
One can only hope. Can you remember, was Emma Barton pregnant at that time and gave a child away? i don't know if you' were watching that.
00:37:46
Speaker
Well, she wasn't around that long ago, i guess, because what's that, 20 years ago? how old are we saying that Lewis is? Yeah, like early twenty s Yeah, i know Emma wasn't around 20 years ago. So, well, i I wasn't watching that either. So she came in. She was only in for like two or three years. Oh, really? I thought she was a bit longer term. That's fair. So I guess it could be could be the case. but Could be the case. Oh my gosh.
00:38:10
Speaker
Well, I'd like to see that like soft side. And it does make sense actually when Lewis, the actor plays Lewis, was talking on some like inside soap, whatever red carpet about how much he liked working with Kev. It's like, okay, maybe they are going to work together a bit more. Maybe he will be, up yeah, true. They maybe will interact.
00:38:25
Speaker
I had something else to say, which is that I don't know if this is because both you and I in our time have lived near London and not particularly loved being near London. But like, would anybody go there on their honeymoon? Is that a thing people would do Like...
00:38:43
Speaker
Are you counting me living in Oxford as living near London? guess that's near a survey. Yeah, you live in the South. I don't know. I just feel like, would people do that? Like London's chaos. I find it quite fun for like a day or two.
00:38:55
Speaker
but it's not like no one goes there for to like have a nice time, do they? Maybe they do. I thought only Americans went on holiday to London. Yeah, I think that might be the case. And M&L's not written by Americans.
00:39:06
Speaker
One assumes. I guess the only thing is like maybe Kev's like, I haven't seen shops in 20 years. Yeah, true. I must walk down Oxford Street and not be able to go in any of the shops, I suppose. I need to go to an American candy ASAP.
00:39:24
Speaker
also really weird they got they were like yeah we're gonna go down to London for a honeymoon and they got in a car I can only assume they were driving to like Leeds station to get the train down yeah like where would you park you wouldn't drive from Leeds to London it would take so long to as in you can drive from Leeds to London it takes like four hours and the train takes two hours Like, and it also, he was like, yeah, Kev bought me this car and doesn't Robert like nice cars, like sports cars?
Charity's Storyline and Character Developments
00:39:53
Speaker
It's like, he would not accept that car.
00:39:55
Speaker
I know that the Rob Ron podcast have talked a lot about the cars and I don't understand anything about cars, so it's all lost on me. I mean, I also don't understand anything about cars, but like ah from watching this Rob Ron playlist, he's always in like sporty, fast looking cars. And then this is just like a normal car. And I don't know if it was meant to illustrate that Kev doesn't really like get robert i guess also again his frame of reference for cars is 20 years out of date i say true and so so true and he probably stole it anyway he didn't have loads of choice it was just like what was available yeah probably bless them um well yeah it's interesting to see where it'll go now like it was it was quite like a cascade of secrets coming out today and i don't know if this breakup is going to stick hope it does swayed him back but
00:40:41
Speaker
I think he might manipulate him back, but I hope that um maybe he'll find out in the meantime that Kev isn't actually dying and he'll be like, well, then I'm definitely not going back with you. I do want some sort of Vic scene where she realises she doesn't have to pretend she had brain tumour anymore. Yeah, except she seems to have been very passive in the whole thing.
00:41:01
Speaker
I remember when Kev first turned up, he was like, oh, it's so good see you doing so well. And she was like, thanks. But other than that, she hasn't really engaged with the whole brain tumor storyline. And you're like, ah how does she feel about the fact that Robert used that as an excuse? And I don't know.
00:41:17
Speaker
She hasn't really said anything about it. She just said, like, I'll Google how that is. Yeah. Bless. um Yeah. I mean, the fact that Kevin's got the secret about not dying seems now sort of pointless if they're not together, which is...
00:41:30
Speaker
what makes you think that maybe they will get back together. I don't know. I think they might ah almost get back together. that Maybe Kev will kind of manipulate Robert into almost doing it.
00:41:40
Speaker
And then at that moment, maybe Liam will be like, stop. He's actually not even dying. Yeah. So I did see, based on all these stories, I guess, um a thread on Reddit today about how everyone's finding it so miserable and this kind of people are like, I'm not watching for a bit. yeah And we said this last week,
00:42:00
Speaker
last time but it's so heavy at the moment it's really really heavy I have been re-watching the Robber on playlist and I've also got to the point where like Aaron is testifying against Gordon for abusing him as a child I was like there's no release but yeah because in amongst all of that obviously there's like other stuff with April going on of like how she thinks she killed that guy and she didn't And there's like the charity baby storyline just feels relentless as well of like, you are just lying so much. Like um maybe they're the light relief they think they're giving us is Jay and Kerry.
00:42:33
Speaker
But to me, it's absolutely horrible. I wrote down we've had some pretty distressing scenes in the past couple weeks where nothing is more distressing than them flirting with each other.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah, when she was like, do you think I'm hot or something? It was like, Kerry, don't do this to yourself. Like, this reminds me of like girls at parties I went to when I was 14. It's like, you don't you don't have to do this anymore.
00:42:56
Speaker
He's just a random man. He's just a random man. And when he said to her, I like it when you smile, oh, it was horrible. Yeah. and I mean, that's a line that could be nice from someone. to I mean, if Aaron, if Robert said that to Aaron, I think I would find it sweet.
00:43:12
Speaker
But it's just, oh, this it's so clear that it's just two random characters that they haven't got anything to do with. They have just sort of thrown them together because they don't really have much to do plot wise.
00:43:24
Speaker
And the the rest of the show is quite bleak. So it's like this will be something fun and new. But I fear that it might last. My only hope and is that maybe it's like it's an exit storyline for them because that would be nice. No, I don't want Kerry to leave.
00:43:39
Speaker
think I've just had enough. I think she's had a time. Really? But if Jay left, who would we hate? such a good point i did like that lewis at one point was just like everyone hates jay nothing it's like yeah we do yeah true um yeah and i enjoyed like nicola and was it rona i feel like the two of them like just enjoying the gossip about about carrying jay's team together this is obviously like no secret is kept for more than three seconds And why would you talk about it anywhere other than a public building where anybody can listen to what you're saying?
00:44:10
Speaker
I think if one of my friends told me that they'd slept with someone that they didn't like at their office, I'd be like, hmm, are we sure that's a good idea? Like... um Are you happy with your choices right now? Yeah.
00:44:22
Speaker
Yeah. Imagine if I told you that. I'd just be like, babe, you need help. I know. and I really hope that you would intervene rather than be like, so. Yeah.
00:44:34
Speaker
Did you get the disinfectant out? They were very into that disinfectant chat. Yeah, they were really on the whole clean up side of things, weren't they? Yeah. so it's the least of the problems also also definitely a problem yeah huge problem yeah i do dread to think where that is going yeah vile um i don't what do you think about the whole like anure of it all i don't know quite confused about how she got to the south coast but then got into a lorry that was heading north and got out there and that's obviously where Kate was kind of like why did you travel all the way down just to travel all the way up yeah it didn't I did find it hard to follow the timeline and it's I'm not clear she's just here for this story because it felt very sudden from her introduction to having like oh she's also involved in this storyline yeah I couldn't say think she seems like a lovely woman and I wish her all the best
00:45:31
Speaker
um But I don't feel massively invested in the whole thing. no I mean I didn't even recognise her when she was in the book message you being like who is this and you literally messaged me like is that the same person that Ruby was looking after yes yes literally glimpsed her like twice on screen yeah but also are they so desperate to bring her back it's like just let her go don't know like I do feel like they I suppose she now knows who they are and might report them or something but like yeah I think they're just taking anyone and everyone at this point if someone escapes then surely they'd be like sure whatever we'll just find someone else who's vulnerable
00:46:06
Speaker
Because, I mean, how many people does it take to move sacks around? I don't know, especially when they're not really able to perform their function because they're so Mount Nourished. That's true. yeah Oh, gosh.
00:46:17
Speaker
And then the week ended with April being arrested for something. So the her trials continue. So I thought that she might have decided to go to the police. Oh, maybe. Do it from the comfort of Newcastle where nobody can be like, where are you?
00:46:31
Speaker
okay that makes more sense i do think it was deliberately ambiguous but like i'm hoping that this is her being like i'm just gonna do it yeah um oh i just long for it to be over i did see um the actress playing celia basically talking about the end of the storyline coming up at some point before too long is okay well fingers crossed yeah tricky I'll just say one final thing about the bear thing is that just did write that it was keeping the tame rat business afloat so many close-ups of just like rats skittering about yeah they're really zeroing in on the rodent population and they did look quite cute hate it they looked adorable yeah they really think a blast yeah definitely the nicest part of the whole story I i would definitely befriend a rat under the circumstances
00:47:21
Speaker
Yeah, if need be. If push came to shove. Rat and bear. It'd be very sweet. Rat and bear. I'd watch that crime-fighting Juro cartoon. Oh, yeah. I was thinking it'd be a kid's story. But yeah, what if you're up for charity? um Firstly, Sarah and Jacob continue to be the most annoying people on the planet.
00:47:35
Speaker
Like, why would they turn up like, here's an enormous amount of water for you to drink? That's so bizarre. It's like she's an adult woman. She does not need you to tell her how to drink. And like, also just literally tap water is available and like drinkable in this country.
00:47:53
Speaker
i I will say that they've had scares of tap water in that village. That's true. Less than that slurry gate. yeah But like that was really annoying and so condescending. And I think I would also probably in that situation be like, well, now you're not coming to the scan.
00:48:07
Speaker
Yeah. It's true. I just empty the wardrobe of their heads and be like, I'll see you in however many weeks are left. You can have this baby then and yeah not a moment before. Exactly. And the other thing was, you know how um a while ago Charity asked Ryan like for some help with Photoshop? Oh, yeah. And it was so that she could fake the paternity tests.
00:48:27
Speaker
But she told him it was so that she could like do some tax avoidance scheme. Hmm. In my mind, and I'm wondering if it was a dream because I can't remember when it was, Charity this week or last week asked Ryan like, oh are you okay to do something on my computer or like make a poster or something?
00:48:44
Speaker
And then the scene was just over. And I wondered if he was going to like stumble upon the files in like the Adobe Creative Cloud. But I don't, yeah.
00:48:57
Speaker
i I don't have any recollection of that, but it but it might have happened. I may have dreamed um and maybe it. Maybe was me just willing it to be over because I listened to the Rob Rumpel cast and they mentioned something which I was already thinking was probably going to happen.
00:49:12
Speaker
Was that at some point, surely they'll want to test the baby for, um is it franconemia that um oh yeah Sarah's got? And i was like, yeah, they do loads of like in utero tests. Maybe they'll do screening for various conditions and they'll be like, what the heck? Your baby doesn't even like carry this as a recessive gene, let alone a dominant one. That would be interesting. Then the thing happened with Ryan and i was like, oh, maybe they find out that way.
00:49:39
Speaker
and and Although I guess Charity might have the recessive gene anyway. That's true. Yeah, that's true. We'll find out, I'm sure. But I just, I'm like, how much longer can this possibly go on for? I need it to be over. Yeah. And what, so 12 weeks, how many weeks is full term? 40? I don't know. 36, I think. 36. Oh gosh, so that's a lot of weeks you've got left. Yes, at least so many weeks.
00:50:08
Speaker
A very dear friend of mine got pregnant by IVF, which means they they know at like two weeks that you're pregnant. And she was and she told me then. And normally, like, friends tell you around the 12-week mark, don't they, once they've got the all clear.
00:50:21
Speaker
And it was just like, it was lovely to be told that early. but And also, you know, you never know what's going to happen. But luckily, little baby's always fine. but um But, yeah, it was... It was such a long time between knowing my friend was pregnant and then and having a baby compared to most people. It's like, oh, you've told me you're pregnant and like, oh the baby's coming the next day.
00:50:40
Speaker
Yeah, just like, oh, I am excited for you, but I'm going to have to measure it out because we've got a long road to ahead. Exactly. she's my little god daughter i love her so all as well um yeah i do enjoy macck and ross bonding even if it has happened mostly off screen i would like to see more of that yeah i really enjoyed that it's nice them to be friends and charlie ah charlie charity is definitely just like unraveling being like i want you to get on but you're not allowed to spend any time with him and you're like yeah it's very odd it's like what do you want acting very strangely and that is going to draw some strange conclusions in people's minds can we please remember this man almost died in a bunker like let him do what he wants for a bit week for goodness sake like let him have a friend in fact i was listening to michael parr he plays ross on the inside soap digital spy podcast thing
00:51:27
Speaker
and he was like, Ross has never had a friend before, so I really liked that he was getting friend. Oh, that's nice. He basically just always hung out with his brothers. was also saying like he feels really old in the house, yeah. It's like, yeah, on reflection, you are 15 years older than the other two. Yeah, I do see that.
00:51:41
Speaker
It's cute, though. um I know that you... hate moses but he's really looking a lot older like i saw him on screen was oh really growing up yeah i guess i don't actually recall seeing him som so i must have um was he there just being like i love mac um basically i think he was just sort of going to school or something i don't know um it's nice that they sometimes do that does seem to be a very occasional hobby for them yeah yeah once upon a time I guess people actually went to school, but in Emmerdale, it's a very loose sense of home education where you learn how to move sacks around and avoid your responsibilities in life.
00:52:18
Speaker
Yeah. We love to see it from them. Really enjoyed Mandy saying to Paddy today, oh, can't you just sack off work today and we'll do this? You're like, both of you do that every day. i think think maybe you should go to work for one.
00:52:32
Speaker
Yeah, and and Charity being sad that she and Mac don't get to spend much time together. It's like, you both have jobs. Yeah, that's actually the way of everybody else's life in this world. Although Mac doesn't ever seem to go to his, so its that's fine. What is his job again?
00:52:44
Speaker
The farm? think he just works on the farm. Yeah, he hasn't been there for a really long time, like since pre-bunker. I think he's struggled to find it at this point. Yeah. Maybe that's how i discover Bear. Like, Mac can get lost trying to find his workplace and it'll just come across him in a field.
00:52:57
Speaker
Um, I can't find you, Moira, but have found a modern-day slavery ring. Yeah. I simply can't get home now though. Apologies. i will be spending the rest of my life here. Do you have any others like highlights from this time? I feel like I've kind of said most of the things on my list just in a random order.
00:53:15
Speaker
Yeah, no, actually have nothing left. The only thing I have left is that there's this um a poster up in the cafe for pottery classes. he's running them no is it you i wonder if it's me and i i dearly hope that it's me that'd be lovely i know it'd be really nice maybe i should be like a visiting artist on emmerdale yeah i see mary loving a bit of pottery oh my word i'd love to teach mary pottery i think she would really love it and she'd make some really creepy like sculptural pieces that would really speak to her
00:53:49
Speaker
that's true and she'd do a little hair for a bandana while she was doing it it'd be lovely actually i'd love that um i guess the only thing to mention is that we're still zero sightings in lydia watch since we last yeah i really hope
Listener Engagement and Feedback
00:54:04
Speaker
that she's okay slash really hope the act is okay yeah but it's also thing we also haven't seen vanessa or tracy or membreed so we're low on you know the women we love in emerald yeah low on sightings um we'll just have to make peace with that yeah shall we do our random name generator shall but before we do thank you for the people who got in touch to say that when we had angelica last week we exclusively spoke about kathy because we we got them totally mixed up so you're quite right you're right angelica has not been on a cruise in her life but also i still don't particularly know who angelica and kathy are as in they have i think i've always the whole time i've watched emidale thought they were the same person
00:54:46
Speaker
Yeah, and that's fair enough. and We haven't seen Angelica for a very long time. And that's actually fine, I think. And presumably haven't seen Cathy for a long time either because... Yeah.
00:54:58
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I assume Angelica is living at Laurels like everyone else in The King family. So Cathy's on the cruise. Angelica was in prison and is supposedly living at Laurels but actually doesn't appear to be.
00:55:10
Speaker
I think that's where we're at. Okay, sure. Okay, well, the random name for the who-guards, mean, the random name this time is, in fact, Ryan. Oh, we were just talking about Ryan. Just talking about I like Ryan. And I was thinking today how sad I am that they wrote his lovely little girlfriend out of the script because she was so cute and she was really fun and like, kooky.
00:55:32
Speaker
She had a lot of pep and now she's gone. So that was a shame. don't remember her name. Was she Meg? No. I don't remember. And doesn't Ryan live with Manpreet right now? Isn't happening still? Yes, he did move in with Manpreet for no reason and we've never seen them together.
00:55:49
Speaker
Yeah, I know. I would really like at least two to three scenes just of them, i don't know, having breakfast together or something because I can't imagine them interacting, but I guess they do.
00:56:01
Speaker
i guess they do. Although maybe it's one of those very much like she's the landlady and he isn' has a little side annex or something. Yeah, maybe, but I just would really like to see what it looks like when like they're queuing for the shower in the morning, that kind of thing.
00:56:16
Speaker
Yeah, I think Ryan is on that list of people who potentially is an interesting character, i don't think he's had a storyline in the time that I've watched, and he barely turns up. and a thing Yeah. Apart from the breakup, I guess.
00:56:28
Speaker
But yeah, the I'm sure when he was discovered as Charity's son, which was when neither of us are watching, that must have been like a big deal. um and isn' And I guess that is keeping around to like pad out the enormous Dingle clan. But yeah give him something to do Give him a relationship or a story. or like i guess his job is just bar work occasionally. Yeah, and sometimes forging documents on Photoshop.
00:56:54
Speaker
He's clearly good with computers. So there's something in there. um Yeah, he's not really up to much. Yeah, I'd love a Manpreet story of some variety.
00:57:05
Speaker
um Not a romantic one. we ah Oh no, Lord of the Rings. No, we know that she should be with Billy. but Yeah, still waiting for that. Yeah, don't know, it's a thing. There are so many characters who just don't get anything to do and we just return endlessly to April. But um yeah, maybe maybe his turn is around the corner. We don't know.
00:57:25
Speaker
I really hope so. That would be nice. Before we move on to our farming content question. um I want to give a shout out to Rachel Troutman, who um just sends really lovely messages saying how much she loves the podcast.
Farming Content and Personal Celebrations
00:57:38
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And the um yeah, she really enjoys that. And I thought she sent a few now. Let's say thanks. She's got in contact on Instagram. um And it looks like she makes lovely like quilts as well, like um by hand.
00:57:52
Speaker
So that's fun. Wow. Yeah, I think the listeners to this, i know we don't have thousands of listeners, but there' they're so... like varied in their talents. And so like such a lot going on. I'm very impressed by them. Whenever they get touch, they're like, you know, Homer experts. I know. It's wild.
00:58:12
Speaker
We also got a really nice email, didn't we, from Lucy. Oh yeah, that was really nice. was really nice. Yeah, we just love hearing from you guys. um So thanks so much for doing that.
00:58:23
Speaker
yes you can get in touch at dinglealltheway.pod at gmail.com. And that Instagram is also dinglealltheway.pod. ah what look out for photos of Simon's new Woolpack teapot and other merch.
00:58:34
Speaker
It's true. You should whole like spread. Yeah, do a video of you eating um drinking tea out of your Rodney mug. Oh yeah, pour from teapot into the mug. Yeah, exactly. We'll see. It might just be a static photo that I sent you. Okay.
00:58:51
Speaker
That's fine. um Yeah, we love hearing from people and the comments comments on Spotify and stuff. It's all just lovely. So thanks so much. Yeah. Thanks, everybody, for being on board. We love you all. What was I going to say?
00:59:02
Speaker
Oh, yeah, I think there's actually been some farming content. There's definitely been some, like, slavery farming. Exactly. Yeah. um Turkey's not being properly processed.
00:59:15
Speaker
That's farm-related. I did fast forward that story because I didn't want to know about turkeys being killed, if I'm honest. Yeah, that's fair. And maybe I won't give you many details, but they were sent back because they weren't done to a high enough standard. And then Bear took the rap for doing it badly because it was actually Anya. Should we be getting our turkeys in for Christmas now, I guess? Yeah. I guess we all buy turkeys all year round, but I guess not as much.
00:59:41
Speaker
No, I don't really know much about the whole turkey farming industry. Yeah, and it's been a good 25 years since I ate turkey, so I'm not an expert. Sorry to bring it up so publicly.
00:59:52
Speaker
It's my first January, it's my veg-iversary, veg-iversary, very exciting.
00:59:58
Speaker
You're going to do a sort of afternoon tea in a village hall to celebrate? Well, I'll be on that holiday that you're not coming on, so I guess. Yeah, absolutely. Sorry about that. So sad you're not going to be there. I know. Well, we'll have to like record a podcast or something.
01:00:11
Speaker
And also, I will be literally just down the road from you, probably. I'll be at my parents' house. so Well, then pop over. I might pop over. Or I'll pop you. so One of should pop. Some sort of popping will I care, I'm sure.
01:00:25
Speaker
um I think that's all. Well, we saw, I guess, Paddy doing his rounds of farms to go and check turkeys for something or other. It seemed quite late in the day if they were going to be killed like the next day. Like, what are we? and I mean, it's just a different flock of turkeys.
01:00:39
Speaker
Honestly, I have no idea what's going on in Turkey World. If maybe we've got any turkey farming experts, maybe keep that information to yourself. We do not want to know, actually. Thank you so much for trying.
01:00:51
Speaker
um Great. Well, there we go. it's been It's been a tough old couple of weeks, but i maybe maybe things will look up. I have seen that we've got Cami organising a housewarming party coming up. so that I saw that. um yeah love Cami. I can't wait for that.
01:01:08
Speaker
yeah And that house share has got fun potential, so more of that, please. I want to see that. i want yeah I think I just need to be a fly on the wall in all the positive people's lives. yeah So basically just Cami.
01:01:19
Speaker
Just Cami. And Manpreet's hopefully okay now. Yeah, fingers crossed. Oh dear. Thanks so for listening, everyone. And we'll see you next time. Lots of love. Bye. Bye.